Doctors from Lower-Tier Medical Schools Prescribe Far More Opioids

September 6, 2017

“A new report suggests that the rank of the medical school where a doctor received initial training may have something to do with how frequently they prescribe opioids later on.

In a report published this month, researchers from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) looked at data for all opioid prescriptions written by doctors in the United States between 2006 and 2014.

Doctors who did their initial training at the lowest-ranked medical schools in the United States prescribed almost three times as many opioids each year, compared with doctors who trained at Harvard University, the top-ranked medical school.”